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EDITORS’ NOTES

Overseen by producer T Bone Burnett, Lost on the River features a recently discovered stash of unfinished Bob Dylan lyrics from the 1967 Basement Tapes era at Big Pink in upstate New York. Dylan’s publisher offered them to Burnett, who assembled Elvis Costello, The Carolina Chocolate Drops’ Rhiannon Giddens, My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, Dawes’ Taylor Goldsmith, and Mumford & Sons’ Marcus Mumford to compose and play music for Dylan’s words. Sessions were held in a professional recording studio, and the roots-based songs vary, depending on where the lead vocalist takes the material. The deluxe version adds five bonus tracks.

EDITORS’ NOTES

Overseen by producer T Bone Burnett, Lost on the River features a recently discovered stash of unfinished Bob Dylan lyrics from the 1967 Basement Tapes era at Big Pink in upstate New York. Dylan’s publisher offered them to Burnett, who assembled Elvis Costello, The Carolina Chocolate Drops’ Rhiannon Giddens, My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, Dawes’ Taylor Goldsmith, and Mumford & Sons’ Marcus Mumford to compose and play music for Dylan’s words. Sessions were held in a professional recording studio, and the roots-based songs vary, depending on where the lead vocalist takes the material. The deluxe version adds five bonus tracks.

TITLE

TIME

Down On the Bottom

4:28

Married To My Hack

1:57

Kansas City

4:04

Spanish Mary

5:31

Liberty Street

2:44

Nothing To It

3:31

Golden Tom – Silver Judas

2:39

When I Get My Hands On You

3:10

Duncan and Jimmy

4:09

Florida Key

3:19

Hidee Hidee Ho #11

4:44

Lost On the River #12

3:41

Stranger

4:21

Card Shark

2:35

Quick Like a Flash

3:17

Hidee Hidee Ho #16

3:51

Diamond Ring

2:53

The Whistle Is Blowing

5:16

Six Months In Kansas City (Liberty Street)

3:36

Lost On the River #20

3:47

20 Songs, 1 Hour 13 Minutes

Released: Aug 19, 2014

℗ 2014 Harvest Records

About The New Basement Tapes

The New Basement Tapes is the name given to the studio collective assembled by T-Bone Burnett to set discarded and discovered Bob Dylan lyrics from 1967 to music and record. Upon their discovery in the fall of 2013, Dylan's publisher approached Burnett with the job of turning the handwritten manuscripts into songs, and he set about assembling a cast of sympathetic souls to put the words to music. He hired his Coward Brothers partner Elvis Costello, Marcus Mumford of Mumford & Sons, Jim James of My Morning Jacket, Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes, and Rhiannon Giddens of the Carolina Chocolate Drops to write and perform the material (drummer Jay Bellerose anchored the proceedings), which was cut during the early months of 2014. The resulting Lost on the River appeared in November of 2014, accompanied by a Showtime documentary called Lost Songs: The Basement Tapes Continued, which told the tale of the project. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine